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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Read, Parse, Describe: Unified Document Parsing with Visual Element Description Generation

Document understanding systems are typically evaluated as separate components via layout analysis, optical text recognition, reading-order prediction, and image captioning. This separation leaves scientific figures, captions, and visual semantics weakly connected, and fails to measure whether a model can produce a sing...

Yuheng Chen, Yufan Chen, Zhuojun Cai et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Beyond Static Cues: Unified Dynamic Detection of MLLM Backdoors via Dual-Flow Trajectory Analysis

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are increasingly deployed in safety-critical domains, yet their susceptibility to backdoor attacks remains a formidable challenge. While existing defenses have evolved from visual-centric patch cues to unsupervised internal attention statistics, they are fundamentally constraine...

Yinzhen Huang, Jiahe Xie, Yitong Sun et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

PAWA: Panoramic Action-conditioned World Modeling for Multiple Agents

A multiplayer world model must predict how the independent actions of several players change a shared environment, including changes outside a player's current field of view. A point-of-view (POV) video captures such changes only after they enter its field of view, whereas panoramic video records the surroundings in ev...

Siqi Yang, Yimu Wang, Ziqi Cai et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

DreamHMR: From Video Generation to Human Motion Modeling via Structural Focusing

Human mesh recovery (HMR) provides a geometric foundation for understanding human motion, but accurately reconstructing both body motion and fine hand articulation from videos remains challenging, especially in real-world scenes where occlusion and partial visibility are common. Video generation pretraining offers rich...

Zheng-Jie Xu, Rui-Hao Gong, Xiang-Long Liu · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

GeoCloak: An Agentic Framework for Semantics-Preserving Geolocation Privacy via Peripheral Clue Manipulation

The rapid advancement of large vision language models (LVLMs) has made geolocation inference from images highly accurate and accessible. This poses serious privacy risks: a passive adversary with black-box LVLM access can infer a user's location from a single photo with no metadata. Existing protection methods rely alm...

Yixin Wu, Mingjie Li, Yun Shen et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

LiFi: LiDAR Generation from Multi-View Images via Geometric and Semantic Collaborative Guidance

Generating LiDAR point clouds from multi-view camera images is a valuable task with applications in controllable data synthesis, cross-modal simulation and various perception tasks. However, most existing methods are not specifically designed for this task, and the quality of their generated LiDAR remains limited. More...

Si-Zhuo Zhou, Xiao-Song Jia, Fan-Rui Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

SceneAE: Scene Generation and Reconstruction in Queryable 3D-Anchored Latent Space

Recent video world models have increasingly adopted 3D memory mechanisms to integrate historical observations into a lightweight and persistent scene representation. This naturally raises a complementary question: if 3D representations can serve as an effective mechanism for memorizing observed scenes, can they also be...

Shuofeng Sun, Wenzhao Zheng, Yunpeng Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Frame Evidence:A Benchmark for Reference Frames and Visual Evidence in Multi-Image Spatial Reasoning

A spatial answer depends on the reference frame specified in language and its supporting visual evidence. Item accuracy alone obscures whether correctness persists when either changes. We introduce Frame Evidence, a benchmark of 320 matched triplets and 960 Chinese multiple-choice questions from captured and rendered s...

Chun-Xi Luo, Qi-Shuai Ding, Xing-Chen Peng et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

VideoHarness-SRSI: Structured Recursive Self-Improvement for Video Understanding Harness

LLM system capabilities depend not only on model parameters but also on the executable harnesses that organize information acquisition, tool use, reasoning, and memory. Recursive harness evolution can automate their design, but how it can reliably discover generalizable systems from limited, noisy, and repeatedly reuse...

Zihao Lin, Haoyu Dong, Haobo Xu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

From Failures to Learnable Worlds: Policy-Conditioned Environment Generation for Navigation Agents

Simulated environments enable scalable training data generation for embodied agents, but more data does not necessarily provide what a particular agent needs to learn. Existing environment-generation pipelines largely optimize generic properties such as realism, diversity, or task coverage, while different pretrained p...

Yue Zhang, Han Lin, Zun Wang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

PhySGA: A Physics-Space Grounded Agentic Framework for Generalizable and Interactive 3D Composition

3D object composition is pivotal to digital content creation and robot simulation, while also serving as a critical testbed for physical intelligence in foundation models. Previous methods either leverage large language models to directly predict object coordinates, or utilize generative diffusion priors to synthesize...

Weichen Lyu, Chong Xia, Ming-Yu Dong et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Oct 2026

Robust Real-Time Monocular Human Pose Estimation with Insole-Based Sensor Fusion

Real-time monocular human pose estimation is an important sensing component for human-centered intelligent systems. While recent camera-based methods have achieved impressive accuracy, fundamental challenges persist, particularly when visual observations are incomplete, such as during lower-body occlusion or short out-...

Liang Yu, Tao Zhu, Xiang-Qing Lu et al. · 0 citations

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Microsoft Research Blog Oct 6, 2026

What AI gets wrong and what failure teaches us

Jennifer Neville did not want to go into computer science—but that’s exactly where she landed. Neville discusses the starts and stops that led to her professional sweet spot and her work identifying “surprising failures” making it hard for AI to handle complexity.  The post What AI gets wrong and what failure teaches us appeared first on Microsoft Research.

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